FINANCE LAWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 4

FINANCE LAWS.

ALLEGATION OF BREACH. WOMAN BEFORE COURT. WELLINGTON, Thursday. "The Court is at present considering, following a case in Wellington, whether the revocation in June of the whole of the April regulations ie a bar to prosecution," eaid Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Petone Magistrate's Court to-day, after hearing a caee in which Mrs. Louise Bilderbeck wae charged with committing a breach of the Finance Emergency Regulations, 1940. Decision was reserved. Senior-Sergeant H. C. D. Wade, who conducted the prosecution, said that in April defendant was granted permission to eend £5 to-Australia on the grounds that the money was intended for the support of her mother. She received a money order for the amount arid enclosed it in a letter to a Mrs. Barlow in New South Walee. In a letter she aeked that the money .should be banked in her own account. The letter was intercepted and the money held. The breach occurred a few days after the regulations came into force on April 10. Mr. W. Coles, for the defence, said defendant, who had been in New Zealand only 18 months, had an aged mother in New South Wales. Mre. Barlow was a close friend and when defendant came to New Zealand she filled in a number of withdrawal slips for small amounts and gave Mrs. Barjow permission to operate on the account when defendants "mother needed money. Defendant had a son in the Australian Navy, counsel continued, and received 5/ weekly in New Zealand on th»3 account. It was virtually this money which was being remitted back to Australia. Wlion in Australia recently defendant made arrangements for thie money to be paid there. —(Press Assn.)